The 2025 Melon Music Awards (), part of the Melon Music Awards series, was held on December 20, 2025, at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. It was organized by Melon, and Kakao Entertainment and broadcast through Melon and Wavve in South Korea, 1theK for international audience, U-Next in Japan and MagentaTV in selected European territories.
G-Dragon is the biggest winner of the night, winning seven awards, with three Daesangs for Song of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Album of the Year, while Record of the Year went to Jennie.
Criteria All songs and albums that are eligible to be nominated must be released from October 31, 2024, to November 19, 2025.
Category Digital sales Online voting Panelist Grand Prize 60% 20% 20% Record of the Year colspan="2" 100% Main Awards 60% 20% 20% Millions Top 10 80% 20% Special Awards colspan="2" 100% Kakao Bank's Favorite Star Award rowspan="2" 80% 20% Berriz Global Fan's Choice Track Zero Choice 20% 20% 60% Japan Favorite Artist by U-Next 50% 50%
Performers The list of performers was announced throughout November, with the final line-up revealed on November 20.
+ Artist(s) Song(s) performed Segment Alpha Drive One "Hola Solar" "Formula" K-pop Formula: Cleared for Takeoff KiiiKiii "To Me from Me" "I Do Me" "Dancing Alone" 나의 모든 순간 들에게 Hanroro "0+0""Landing in Love" Me: Self Love Woodz "Drowning""00:30" You: Release 10cm "CDEFG" "To Reach You" Us: Unrequited Love Idid "Chan-Ran" "Push Back" The Adventures of Idid Jay ParkH1ghr MusicLngshot "DNA" "Blue Check" "The Purge" "Back Seat" "Saucin'" "Keep It Sexy (Mommae 2)" History AllDay Project "One More Time""Look At Me""Famous" All Day, Level Up Hearts2Hearts "The Chase" "Focus" Into the Secret Garden Illit "Do the Dance""Not Cute Anymore" Now Trending: Illit NCT Wish "Poppop""Videohood""Color" Midnight: Wish Riize "Fame""Bag Bad Back""Fly Up" The World in My Hands BoyNextDoor "Hollywood Action" "If I Say, I Love You" Next BoyNextDoor: Finding Our Next Home Zico "Tough Cookie""No You Can't""Duet" Count It! Ive "XOXZ""Attitude""Rebel Heart" Dominance Mode Plave "Dash""BBUU!" Our Journey with PLLI: Complete Exo "Wolf""Monster""The Eve""Love Shot""Growl""Back It Up" Embark on the Beyond Aespa "Drift""Rich Man""Dirty Work" No Limits Jennie "Seoul City""Zen""Like Jennie" Nirvana to Self G-Dragon "Drama" "Power""Home Sweet Home""Too Bad" "Too Bad" "Crooked" G-Dragon as an Aphorism
Presenters The line-up of presenters was announced on December 18. Ahn Jae-hyun – presented Top 10 Artists Bae Hyun-sung and Jung Ji-so – presented New Artist of the Year and Best Male Solo Mimiminu – presented Top 10 Artists Jeong Hyeok and Kani – presented Berriz Global Fan's Choice and Best Producer Son Na-eun – presented Top 10 Artists Shin Eun-soo – presented Top 10 Artists Moon Sang-min – presented Best Male Group and Best Female Group Cha Jun-hwan – presented Millions Top 10 Kim Jae-won and Shin Do-hyun – presented Best Music Video and Track Zero Choice Kim Ye-won and Shin Seung-ho – presented Hot Trend and Best Music Style Joo Woo-jae and Kwaktube – presented Stage of the Year and Best Songwriter Kim Min-ha – presented Millions Top 10 Kim Ji-yeon and Kim Min-kyu – presented New Artist of the Year and 1theK Global Icon Orbit and Wing – presented Best Performance – Female and Best Performance – Male Han Ji-eun and Ryu Kyung-soo – presented Japan Favorite Artist by U-Next Heo Nam-jun and Ok Ja-yeon – presented Global Rising Artist and Best Music Style Noh Sang-hyun – presented Millions Top 10 Kim Do-wan and Ryu Hye-young – presented Kakao Bank Everyone's Star and Global Artist Park Eun-bin – presented Record of the Year (Daesang) and Album of the Year (Daesang) Yoon Jong-shin – presented Artist of the Year (Daesang) and Song of the Year (Daesang)
Winners and nominees The list of nominees for the Top 10 Award was announced on November 20, 2025, through the official website. Voting took place from November 20 to December 4, 2025. The remaining categories, excluding Record of the Year and Hot Trend Award, will be announced on December 5. Voting began that same day and will end on December 19. (Note: Click on tab labelled "부문별 투표" to view open categories then click through each subheading to view nominees.)
The Top 10 Artists winners were announced on December 5, while the remaining categories will be revealed during the ceremony on December 20. Winners and nominees are listed in alphanumerical order, with winners listed first and emphasised in bold.
Grand Prize + Album of the Year(Daesang) Artist of the Year(Daesang) G-Dragon – Übermensch Babymonster – Drip IU – A Flower Bookmark 3 Ive – Ive Empathy Jennie – Ruby Lim Young-woong – Im Hero 2 Plave – Caligo Pt. 1 Riize – Odyssey Rosé – Rosie Seventeen – Happy Burstday G-Dragon Aespa BoyNextDoor Ive Jennie Lim Young-woong NCT Wish Plave Riize Rosé Song of the Year(Daesang) Record of the Year(Daesang) G-Dragon – "Home Sweet Home" 10cm – "To Reach You" Babymonster – "Drip" BoyNextDoor – "If I Say, I Love You" Huntrix – "Golden" Ive – "Rebel Heart" Jennie – "Like Jennie" Park Da-hye and Maktub – "Starting With You" Rosé – "Toxic Till the End" Zo Zazz – "Don't You Know" Jennie
Main awards + Top 10 Artists Millions Top 10 Aespa BoyNextDoor G-Dragon Ive Jennie Lim Young-woong NCT Wish Plave Riize Rosé BoyNextDoor – No Genre G-Dragon – Übermensch IU – A Flower Bookmark 3 Ive – Ive Empathy Jennie – Ruby Lim Young-woong – Im Hero 2 Plave – Caligo Pt. 1 Riize – Odyssey Rosé – Rosie Seventeen – Happy Burstday New Artist of the Year Best Pop Artist AllDay Project Hearts2Hearts JAESSBEE KiiiKiii Zo Zazz Ed Sheeran Don Toliver Justin Bieber Katseye Lady Gaga Best Male Solo Best Female Solo G-Dragon 10cm Lim Young-woong Maktub Zo Zazz Rosé IU Jennie Jisoo Taeyeon Best Male Group Best Female Group BoyNextDoor Plave Riize Seventeen Tomorrow X Together Ive Aespa Babymonster Hearts2Hearts Le Sserafim Best OST Huntrix – "Golden" D.O. – "Forever" Lee Chang-sub – "True Love" Plave – "We Don't Stop" Tomorrow X Together – "When the Day Comes"
Popularity awards + Track Zero Choice Berriz Global Fan's Choice Hanroro – "Goodbye, My Summer" Baek Hyun-jin – "Mogwa" Chudahye Chagis – "Jakdu: Standing on Blades" CHS – "Echo" Effie – "More Hyper" Kim Oki – "Lucky" Sanmanhan – "Heart of a Dog" Shin In-ryu – "Attack!" Wah Wah Wah and Noridogam – "Uncertainty" Woo Hui-jun – "Spacious House" Hearts2Hearts Aespa AllDay Project Babymonster BoyNextDoor Day6 G-Dragon Illit IU Ive Jennie KiiiKiii Meovv NCT Dream NCT Wish Plave Riize Rosé Stray Kids Zerobaseone Japan Favorite Artist by U-Next BoyNextDoor Aespa G-Dragon Ive Riize Kakao Bank Everyone's Star NCT Wish
Special awards + 1theK Global Icon Best Music Style KiiiKiii 10cm AllDay Project Best Music Video Best Performance – Female KiiiKiii – "I Do Me" Illit Best Performance – Male Best Producer Riize Zico Best Songwriter Hot Trend G-Dragon Woodz Global Artist Global Rising Artist Aespa Idid J-Pop Favorite Artist Stage of the Year Kenshi Yonezu Aespa – Synk: Aexis Line
Multiple awards The following artist(s) received two or more awards:
Count Artist(s) 7 G-Dragon 4 BoyNextDoor 3 Aespa Ive Jennie Riize Rosé 2 AllDay Project Hearts2Hearts KiiiKiii Lim Young-woong NCT Wish Plave
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